August 17, 2025
August 17, 2025
Children Liturgy of the Word
Children Liturgy of the Word
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20th Sunday of Year C
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Choose one of the following OUR SUNDAY VISITOR activities as a way to further reflect on the Sunday readings:
- Talk about the challenges which your family faces at this time? How can you work together to overcome those challenges?
- Hold a family picnic this week as summer vacation draws to an end or as our society gets ready to return to the regular activities of early autumn. On the picnic, hold a race – like the one suggested in today’s second reading. Afterward, talk together about what it means to keep one’s eye on the goal in a race.
- Name the people in your extended family who do not share your faith. Give them a phone call, not to recruit them but to let them know you care about them very much.
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20th Sunday of Year C
- In Jeremiah 38, the king’s officials threw Jeremiah into a ___.
- a) well
- b) prison cell
- c) dungeon
- d) dark room
- The person who secretly helped Jeremiah by bringing him to a safer place was:
- a) Baruch
- b) Zedekiah
- c) Ebed-melech
- d) Nebuchadnezzar
- What did Ebed-melech bring to Jeremiah to help him get out of the muddy cistern?
- a) a rope
- b) a ladder
- c) a small boat
- d) some wood
- Why did the king’s officials want to harm Jeremiah?
- a) He refused to obey the king.
- b) He said things they didn’t like to hear.
- c) He sided with the enemies.
- d) He stole from the king.
- Jeremiah was called to:
- a) be a soldier
- b) be a priest
- c) preach God’s words
- d) be a prophet
- In Luke 12:49-53, Jesus said he came to bring ___.
- a) peace
- b) division
- c) happiness
- d) wealth
- What did Jesus say he wanted to see happen on earth?
- a) A fire to be started
- b) A great feast to take place
- c) A new temple to be built
- d) People to love one another
- According to Jesus in Luke 12:49-53, division can happen even within a ___.
- a) temple
- b) kingdom
- c) family
- d) town
- Jesus mentions that he has a ___.
- a) powerful sword
- b) strong army
- c) large ship
- d) special baptism
- What is the “baptism” that Jesus must undergo in Luke 12:50?
- a) A joyful celebration
- b) A symbolic washing
- c) A painful experience
- d) A long journey
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Run with Endurance
OBJECTS: A picture of a power strip with a lot of cords running from it.
What do I have today? Right, a power strip. It has a charger for my phone and one for the kids’ kindles plugged into it…..I have a power strip like this under my desk at work, but here’s what it looks like…(show picture)…….right!!
I’m always getting my feet tangled up in all the cords! You know it’s funny though….as long as I keep my feet where they belong, I don’t get them tangled in the cords…it’s only when i don’t watch where I’m putting my feet that I get all tangled up……I know the cords are there and I think I’m avoiding them and then all of a sudden one of the cords will be wrapped around my foot! You know, in our Christian walk, sin can sorta be like those cords.
I read these Bible verses last week and they certainly are true of me!! “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.” (Hebrews 12:1-2)
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At the Present Time
OBJECTS: If the sky is visible from area of presentation, use it to illustrate the lesson.
Have you ever stretched out on the ground and looked at clouds? Clouds are very beautiful and sometimes they seem to be in shapes that are familiar to us. Perhaps a cloud may look like a face or a duck or a stack of pancakes. It is fun to give our imaginations freedom to see what we can discover. Looking at clouds seems to relax our bodies and our minds. We may daydream and think about things we could make, stories we could write, pictures we could draw, songs we could sing. This is all good. It helps us be more creative.
Weather forecasters also look at clouds. They study the weather and try to predict whether we will have rain on the day of a picnic or sunshine when we want to go swimming. Being able to predict the weather helps farmers know when to plant and harvest crops. Weather forecasts help us prepare for storms and give us an idea of what road conditions might be when we are planning a trip. All of these things are good things.
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Very happy to have found this site with so many different resources I can use. God bless the work you do 🙏🏻
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